Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
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Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
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#2Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit | 159 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600756
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#3Let's try again on 03:14:07 UTC 19 January 2038...
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#4I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title.
(I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some regions, just didn't get this in the first place.)
Re: Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
#5> If you're skeptical that this feat is possible with a raw 4004, you're right: The 4004 itself is far too limited to run Linux directly. Instead, Grinberg created a solution that is equally impressive: an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor—the architecture used in the DECstation 2100 workstation that Linux was originally ported to. This emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.
That's cool
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#6[dupe]
Actual article and submission from the dev: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004
Re: Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
#7Somewhere in the US Midwest, Jeff Geerling suddenly decides "nah, I don't wanna recompile the kernel."
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#8I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title. (I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some regions, just didn't get this in the first place.)
Also the comma would be after 3 digits, no?
Like 1,000 and 100?
Re: Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
#9I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title. (I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some regions, just didn't get this in the first place.)
Commas are used for the decimal point instead of the period character in many countries, including many European countries.
Re: Linux boots in 4,76 days on Intel 4004
#10I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title. (I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some regions, just didn't get this in the first place.)
Also the comma would be after 3 digits, no? Like 1,000 and 100?
Truly. But at first sight I couldn't parse the comma as anything else except a delimiter :(